Who Is ASDIP Structural Software Designed For?
ASDIP structural software is designed for structural and civil engineers, architects, bridge designers, contractors, engineering students, and steel fabricators who need to analyze, design, and optimize structural members. It fits users who work with U.S. or Canadian design codes and want modular tools covering concrete, foundations, retaining walls, steel, wood, and structural analysis. If your work falls outside those member types or code regions, ASDIP may not be the right fit.
Primary user groups
ASDIP lists its intended audience directly on its site:
- Structural engineers — the core users, designing and checking members across concrete, steel, wood, and foundations.
- Civil engineers — working on structures that overlap with site and infrastructure work, such as retaining walls and footings.
- Architects — needing to verify structural elements during design coordination.
- Bridge designers — using member analysis and design modules.
- Contractors — checking or optimizing designs before construction.
- Engineering students — learning member design with documented, code-based tools.
- Steel fabricators — designing base plates, anchor rods, connections, and related steel components.
The common thread is member-level design work: beams, columns, footings, walls, and connections, rather than full-building BIM or architectural modeling.
What each user type gets from the modules
ASDIP is organized as separate products, so suitability depends on which modules match your tasks.
| Product | Modules included | Best suited for |
|---|---|---|
| ASDIP CONCRETE | Continuous beams, biaxial columns, one-way slabs, shear walls, two-way slabs, out-of-plane loaded concrete/masonry bearing walls | Engineers designing concrete members |
| ASDIP FOUNDATION | Concrete spread footings, combined irregular footings, strap footings, wall footings, pile caps, non-linear pile foundation analysis & design | Foundation and geotechnical-adjacent design work |
| ASDIP RETAIN | Concrete/block cantilever retaining walls, restrained basement walls, sheet piling, counterfort retaining walls, gravity retaining walls | Retaining wall and earth-retention design |
| ASDIP STEEL | Base plates, anchor rods, shear lugs, biaxial columns, steel/composite beams, web openings, shear & moment connections | Steel designers and fabricators |
| ASDIP WOOD | Wood continuous beams, wood biaxial columns, wood bearing walls, wood multistory shear walls | Wood-frame and mass timber design |
| ASDIP ANALYSIS | Beams and load generation such as seismic, snow, and wind loads | Engineers needing member analysis and load derivation |
ASDIP SUITE bundles these products for users who need more than one discipline.
When ASDIP is a good fit
- You design individual structural members rather than whole buildings.
- You work under the latest USA or Canada codes — ASDIP states it supports these.
- You want to run "what-if" analyses to optimize a design, not just produce a single pass.
- You value documented, reliable results and a user-friendly workflow, which the site emphasizes.
- You want to model a structure and complete a design in minimal time, with the vendor claiming faster results than competitors.
When it may not fit
- Your projects require codes outside the U.S. and Canada.
- You need full-building BIM coordination, architectural drafting, or non-member analysis.
- Your work centers on member types not covered by any module listed above.
Practical next step
ASDIP offers a 15-day free trial, and the site also provides free tools (beam calculator, concrete footing calculator, base plate calculator, retaining wall calculator) if you want to test the workflow before committing. Existing cloud account holders can log in at the customer portal. Pricing details are not specified on the page, so check the "How to Buy" section for current terms.